Available:*
Library | Call Number | Status |
|---|---|---|
Searching... Hardwood Creek Library (Forest Lake) | EASY ASH | Searching... Unknown |
Searching... Oakdale Library | EASY ASH | Searching... Unknown |
Searching... Park Grove Library (Cottage Grove) | EASY ASH | Searching... Unknown |
Searching... R.H. Stafford Library (Woodbury) | EASY ASH | Searching... Unknown |
Searching... Stillwater Public Library | EASY ASH | Searching... Unknown |
Searching... Wildwood Library (Mahtomedi) | EASY ASH | Searching... Unknown |
Bound With These Titles
On Order
Summary
Summary
Count along with twenty young students from nineteen different homes as they get ready for their first day of kindergarten.
Alarm clocks go off and students all over town wake up and get ready for their big day. Some feel eager, others are nervous, and a few are even grumpy! But they all get dressed, eat breakfast, pack backpacks, and make their way to school, where they will meet their new teacher and become a wonderful new class. Boni Ashburn's snappy rhyming text and Kimberly Gee's adorable and diverse group of children make this a great pick for little ones getting ready for their first day of school.
Author Notes
Boni Ashburn has lived in Connecticut, Ohio, Illinois, and Colorado, but now lives in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. She is the author of Hush , Little Dragon , Over At The Castle , I Had A Favorite Dress , and several other books for children. Visit her at BoniAshburn.com.
Kimberly Gee grew up in Lakewood, New Jersey, and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from California State University, Long Beach. Prior to delving into her life-long dream of writing and illustrating children's books, Kimberly parlayed her creative talents into a successful career in architectural design, illustration, and greeting card design and production. Kimberly currently resides in Claremont, California. She has two young children, Finn and Claire, who are her inspiration (and her models). Visit her at KimberlyGee.com.
Reviews (4)
School Library Journal Review
PreS-K-Twenty children from 19 different homes are getting ready for the first day of school in this illustrated story in rhyme. Some of the students-to-be are eager, others are nervous, but there are plenty of antics all around. "Three have pancakes./Juice for eight./Two eat toast./One drops a plate. Some have butterflies;/they just nibble./One's distracted-/dribble.dribble." The children are from diverse backgrounds, and Gee skillfully infuses their faces with emotion in the digitally colored pencil drawings. With such a variety of experiences early in the morning, viewers will be able to identify with the characters depicted. It's also fun to follow the individual kids as they get ready, meet up with friends, and make their way to class. VERDICT An appealing look at one group of students who come together to form a class. Suitable for small group sharing, but most first-time students will want to pore over the engaging artwork.-Jennifer Steib Simmons, Anderson County Library, SC © Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
Ashburn (I Had a Favorite Hat) turns her attention to the preparations that go into getting ready for school, bouncing among 20 children as they wake up, get dressed, and have breakfast, with varying speeds and degrees of enthusiasm ("Five begin to look alive./ This one's sure he won't survive./ One is tickled. Two look worried./ One woke late and now she's hurried!"). Gee (Today with Meg and Ted) turns in some excellent work, strongly evoking personalities for each of the children through body language, eccentric clothing choices, and a bevy of homey details that will resonate with a broad range of readers. Indeed, the book's biggest strength is its subtle recognition of difference: even though these kids are all headed to the same place, their individual family situations, moods, and interests all play roles in bringing them there. Ages 4-8. Illustrator's agent: Kelly Sonnack, Andrea Brown Literary. (July) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Horn Book Review
Four are eager, up since dawn. / Three just sit and yawn and yawn." Spare, trip-proof rhymes describe the morning routine before the first day of school as experienced by a bevy of what appear to be new kindergartners. Together, Ashburn's rhymes and Gee's tidy thumbnails of twenty-odd individualized kids make the point that it's okay to march to one's own beat. (c) Copyright 2017. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Booklist Review
Twenty different children go through the different stages of getting dressed and ready for the first day of school. They don't know they will become one class, yet many of their experiences mirror one another. Ashburn's rhyming text rollicks along with the children's varied emotional states: Four are eager, up since dawn. / Three just sit / and yawn / and yawn. / Some are grumpy. / Some keep sleeping. / They don't hear the clock beep-beep-ing! The diverse group of kids run the gamut from excited to fearful, focused to distracted, and Gee shows them in vignettes that capture their uniqueness. The pencil and digitally colored illustrations offer lots of detail, often putting several characters alongside one another so readers can contrast their concurrent experiences take, for example, the full page of kids' socks, some matching, some not so much. Though individual kids are shown having a difficult time, everyone eventually arrives at school and, at the end, seems content to be part of a class.--Seales, Stephanie Copyright 2016 Booklist
